22 Facts About SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines is the flag carrier of Sri Lanka and a member airline of the Oneworld airline alliance.

SriLankan Airlines joined the Oneworld airline alliance on 1 May 2014.

SriLankan Airlines upgraded its existing A340 fleet into a two-class configuration whilst overhauling the interior to reflect the new corporate image.

Whilst continuing expansion in the region, SriLankan Airlines commenced flying to Jeddah, its third destination in Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh and Dammam, thus increasing the number of destinations in the Middle East to nine.

Currently, SriLankan Airlines operates an all-Airbus fleet except for its discontinued Air-Taxi services.

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Accordingly, SriLankan Airlines took over two of Mihin Lanka's aircraft and absorbed its route network, adding ten new destinations to SriLankan Airlines's route network.

In October 2017, SriLankan Airlines launched direct daily non-stop flights to Melbourne, Australia, its first new long-haul route in over five years and the most ambitious expansion to date.

SriLankan Catering is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SriLankan Airlines, providing flight catering services to all airlines serving the Bandaranaike International Airport.

SriLankan Airlines is currently the largest foreign airline operating service to India, in terms of destinations, serving 14 cities.

On 11 June 2012, SriLankan Airlines was announced as oneworld's latest member-elect, on the sidelines of the IATA World Air Transport Summit in Beijing.

SriLankan Airlines joined the airline alliance on 1 May 2014 as the first carrier from the Indian Sub-continent.

In 2012, SriLankan Airlines aimed to boost its fleet to 35 aircraft over the next five years and had talks with both Airbus and Boeing regarding a deal.

On 23 February 2015, SriLankan Airlines finalized a deal with Air Lease Corporation and AerCap to acquire two Airbus A321neo aircraft, one from each leasing firm.

SriLankan Airlines offers two classes of service, Business Class and Economy Class.

In Business Class, SriLankan Airlines offers full flat-bed seats on all of its long haul fleet with Audio Video on Demand facilities.

SriLankan Airlines provides in-seat entertainment in Economy class on all its wide-bodied aircraft and the vast majority of narrow-body aircraft.

SriLankan Airlines is South Asia's first airline to have on-board WiFi capability.

SriLankan Airlines Catering Limited is the sole airline caterer in Sri Lanka.

SriLankan Airlines subsequently launched FlySmiLes, which has since added a variety of new reward partners to its program.

In 2016 and 2017, SriLankan Airlines's losses were impacted by the costs in relation to the much-publicised cancellation of its Airbus A350 lease agreements.

Sri Lankan SriLankan Airlines later issued a statement clarifying that the printed material which was deported to Uganda included only the Ugandan currency notes and it further revealed that due to security reasons with bordering Kenya, Ugandan government preferred to obtain printed Ugandan shilling currency notes from a global security printer.

SriLankan Airlines decided to sue Airbus for $ 1 billion as damages, loss of reputation, reimbursement of costs, and interests.